[TAS] GB Metroid II: Return of Samus '100%' by Cardboard in 49:22.82

TAS originally published on 2007-10-08

This is Metroid II: Return of Samus completed with all the items collected. Being truthful to the original Metroid values, the game holds many items cleverly hidden, so finding all of them is not an easy task.

That being said, Metroid II doesn't keep track of the collected items' percentage. Moreover, the game has two excessive Energy tanks and an additional copy of each beam. It's been agreed that the author should take all the E-tanks, and at least one copy of each beam. However, due to the apparent linearity of this game, collecting so many additional items doesn't make the movie dramatically slower.

Note: This movie does not use secret worlds, also known as "select glitch".

[Ryfinius]

27:14 - I was clenched, even knowing this is a TAS speedrun.

[ECHOintothedark]

48:17
This is how I'd imagine a "Something About Metroid II" would go.

[ugandanknuckles]

When just trying to control the character is hard, tas makes it all look great.

[eatingmage]

This is one of those games I love to watch, but would probably hate to play

[知力-qj]

Q　なぜTASなのに、最終入力後の
　 スタッフロールを流すんだい


A 51:34

[cyberangel]

Bravo et merci d'avoir fait découvrir la fin de ce jeu. Je l'avais étant petit mais jamais je n'avais réussi à le terminer

[enerc]

because there are 2 comments, with mine it would be number 3, but I don't see another one, I've already seen this bullfight several times and they never put the colors on it, because they don't play it on the GBC, in the emulator there is the option to put the colors of the GBC and the super Game boy, you can also put borders.

[patriciosimplementepatrici]

Hours ago (on the day and time I write this) I just finished Metroid 2: Return of Samus, and it is the 2nd Metroid that I have finished, because the 1st was Fusion. And boy, of the 2 it was in this one where I felt the most terrified, and more because of the final battle, but I loved facing each evolutionary stage of these creatures (If you ask me, my favorite evolutionary stages of the Metroids are the standard, as it is the most characteristic design, and the Omega, although in this game and leaving aside the 2017 Remake it does not look as helpless as in Fusion, but I recognize that it is something quick to hit its weak points). Also, since I was 10 and 11 years old, I have been a Metroid fan.
Despite the limitations of the original Game Boy (Although I played this game on an emulator on my cell phone), I think it is a spectacular game that enriched the Lore of the franchise at that time.
PS: Is there a way to restart the game from scratch? Because I would like to play it again a few more times from the beginning.

[chackbro]

Did they have 69 health for so long on purpose, or did it just work out that way?

[Davian]

Horizontal Movement: Morph Ball
Vertical Movement: Boots (from 11:51 on, Hi-Jump Boots)
Falling Movement: Spider Ball (from 5:07 on)

[russoft]

What the heck do you get from killing the creature around 10 minute mark?! I always ran away from it and never returned. Spiderball jump?! All my life I never knew that existed.

[mada-ryu]

This game was to entertaining to watch.

PD: Oooh, so that's the baby metroid that appears in Super Metroid

[SmoggyLambGG]

_"OK, so the first game was sorta tough, so we gave Samus 99 energy, long beam, morph ball and 30 missiles. Satisfied?"_

[sternik]

That's what true Samus' true mission looked like

[CarbonRollerCaco]

Those three Missile Tanks and one (not two) extra Energy Tank in the ceiling tunnels in the second and fourth ruins. WHAT WERE THE DEVS THINKING?! WHO LEGITIMATELY FINDS THOSE?! At least Metroid 1's Energy Tanks-in-tiles can be blundered into because you can take the Wave Beam to Kraid. On top of being in dumb spots, MII's extra items ruined the nice 40-item count that would match M1 :<( (speaking of which, all copies of each weapon should be required for 100% Metroid 1/II runs—not that this run would be affected so much) No wonder future Metroid games standardized 100 items and quick ways to check everything. Thanks, Nintendo. I love you, but you can still be jerks sometimes.

[gigaslave]

I want to see it this VBM movie would sync properly if run on that fanmade GBC color mod of this game.

[jamielovesgames]

Whoa…this is wild! I just got a 60:51 and while a lot of these inputs aren’t viable, does give me some ideas…

[cowgaming]

I can’t decided what to rank this game

[DemICE]

I don't get how it's randomly gaining health while running in lava

[DQSpider]

Whole lotta philistines in these comments who can't appreciate a masterclass in setting tone with limited tools